Sometimes you just have to realize when you are out of your depth. New Jersey Institute of Technology has yet to realize that. For some unknown reason, NJIT moved up to Division I a few years back, and they are trying to compete with schools who can draw a bit more... how to put this delicately... basketball orientated student athlete. When I was in high school in New Jersey there were half a dozen members of my tiny senior class, who were going to NJIT. In addition to not being big ballers, the only other thing they all shared in common was a love of Monty Python and a similar heritage. In short, they were dorks, but the jokes on me, because they probably all make mid six figures now and I, well, I do this blog for free.
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With that background out of the way, I want to congratulate the Highlanders for doing what the Patriots, Dolphins and Memphis couldn’t do this year. Finish a season perfect. NJIT (which I always thought should be NJ Tech like Cal Tech or Georgia Tech...) Is the first team to ever go 0-29 after dropping yesterdays game to Utah Valley State by a final of 76-50. A 29 loss season can be taken a few different ways, but this isn’t the "we lost a bunch of 2 point games" 29 loss season. This is the "the closest we ever came was 9 points twice" 29 loss season. NJIT was 5-24 last year, and won their first game of the 06-07 season over Manhattan 56-55. The Jaspers repaid NJIT by thumping them 70-28 in the first tilt of this year’s campaign. Wow.
With that background out of the way, I want to congratulate the Highlanders for doing what the Patriots, Dolphins and Memphis couldn’t do this year. Finish a season perfect. NJIT (which I always thought should be NJ Tech like Cal Tech or Georgia Tech...) Is the first team to ever go 0-29 after dropping yesterdays game to Utah Valley State by a final of 76-50. A 29 loss season can be taken a few different ways, but this isn’t the "we lost a bunch of 2 point games" 29 loss season. This is the "the closest we ever came was 9 points twice" 29 loss season. NJIT was 5-24 last year, and won their first game of the 06-07 season over Manhattan 56-55. The Jaspers repaid NJIT by thumping them 70-28 in the first tilt of this year’s campaign. Wow.
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You have to ask yourself why the Highlanders don’t just play in DIII like their brethren from MIT, Rensselaer Polytech and Worcester Polytech. And I asked that too, and the answer is: who the fuck knows. But they are going to try and stick it out in DI, even thought their coach quit and a lot of their players are talking about the possibility of transferring. And we wonder why the Japanese are so far ahead of us. They know not to mix their smart kids and basketball.
You have to ask yourself why the Highlanders don’t just play in DIII like their brethren from MIT, Rensselaer Polytech and Worcester Polytech. And I asked that too, and the answer is: who the fuck knows. But they are going to try and stick it out in DI, even thought their coach quit and a lot of their players are talking about the possibility of transferring. And we wonder why the Japanese are so far ahead of us. They know not to mix their smart kids and basketball.
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